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As I watched the news this morning about the wild fires in California I heard the reporter announce that a woman firefighter had to be air lifted out due to heat exhaustion. What is wrong with that statement…why is it bothering me? For all you smart people, exactly… why did he have to say “woman”, if it was a man he would not have said a man firefighter. I know it might seem trivial to some but I just wish society would stop labeling when it is not relevant to a story; the black man, the gay person, the fat woman, etc. Unless you need that adjective for your story to make sense, just leave it out.

I actually hate the fact that they use the word woman instead of female. Woman is a noun, female is an adjective. Of course, the flip side to this is that female soldiers (my line of work) just gets shortened to females, resulting in the opposite grammatical problem.